I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another's sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it.

Twenty minutes seemed like an eternity, and like no time at all.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

My favorite fur is wild acrylic.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?